Back when the bubonic plague ate up most of the world's population, the Romans had a clever idea to keep the healthies separated from the sickos. The plagued people were shipped off to Poveglia Island, a small, secluded land mass that floats between Venice and Lido. There, people lived out the last of their wretched lives together until they croaked. ,,,

To solve these puzzles, an historian would normally lookto records from the Plague years to see what people werereporting. When he does so, he encounters stories so stunningand unbelievable that he is likely to reject them asthe fantasies and superstitions of badly frightened minds.A great many people throughout Europe and other Plaguestrickenregions of the world were reporting that outbreaksof the Plague were caused by foul-smelling "mists." Thosemists frequently appeared after unusually bright lights in thesky. The historian quickly discovers that "mists" and brightlights were reported far more frequently and in many morelocations than were rodent infestations. The Plague yearswere, in fact, a period of heavy UFO activity.What; then, were the mysterious mists?There is another very important way in which plaguegerms can be transmitted: through germ weapons. The UnitedStates and the Soviet Union today have stockpiles ofbiological weapons containing bubonic plague and otherepidemic diseases. The germs are kept alive in cannisterswhich spray the diseases into the air on thick, often visible,artificial mists. Anyone breathing in the mist will inhalethe disease. There are enough such germ weapons todayto wipe out a good portion of humanity. Reports of identicaldisease-inducing mists from the Plague years stronglysuggest that the Black Death was caused by germ warfare.Let us take a look at the incredible reports which lead tothat conclusion.

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The link between unusual aerial phenomena and the BlackDeath was established immediately during the first outbreaksof the Plague in Asia. As one historian tells us:

The first reports [of the Plague] came out of theEast. They were confused, exaggerated, frightening,as reports from that quarter of the world so often are:descriptions of storms and earthquakes: of meteorsand comets trailing noxious gases that killed trees anddestroyed the fertility of the land...

The above passage indicates that strange flying objectswere doing more than just spreading disease:

they were also apparently spraying chemical or biological defoliants fromthe air. The above passage echoes the ancient Mesopotamiantablets which described defoliation of the landscape byancient Custodial "gods."

Many human casualties from theBlack Death may have been caused by such defoliants.The connection between aerial phenomena and plague hadbegun centuries before the Black Death. We saw examplesin our earlier discussion of Justinian's Plague. We readfrom another source about a large plague that had reportedlybroken out in the year 1117—almost 250 years before theBlack Death. That plague was also preceded by unusualcelestial phenomena:

In 1117, in January, a comet passed like a fiery armyfrom the North towards the Orient, the moon waso'ercast blood-red in an eclipse, a year later a lightappeared more brilliant than the sun. This was followedby great cold, famine, and plague, of which one-thirdof humanity is said to have perished.

From Vienna, Austria, we get the following description ofan event which happened in 1568. Here we see a connectionbetween an outbreak of Plague and an object described ina manner remarkably similar to a modern cigar or beamshapedUFO:

When in sun and moonlight a beautiful rainbow anda fiery beam were seen hovering above the churchof St. Stephanie, which was followed by a violentepidemic in Austria, Swabia, Augsberg, Wuertemberg,Nuremburg, and other places, carrying off humanbeings and cattle.

Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena usually occurredfrom several minutes to a year before an outbreak of Plague.Where there was a gap between such a sighting and thearrival of the Plague, a second phenomenon was sometimesreported: the appearance of frightening humanlike figuresdressed in black. Those figures were often seen on the outskirtsof a town or village and their presence would signal theoutbreak of an epidemic almost immediately. A summarywritten in 1682 tells of one such visit a century earlier:

In Brandenburg [in Germany] there appeared in 1559horrible men, of whom at first fifteen and later ontwelve were seen. The foremost had beside their posteriorslittle heads, the others fearful faces and longscythes, with which they cut at the oats, so that theswish could be heard at a great distance, but the oatsremained standing. When a quantity of people camerunning out to see them, they went on with theirmowing.

The island is currently off limits to visitors — locals and tourists alike. After a short period of agricultural use following the closure of a large mental hospital in 1968 the island was completely abandoned, and has remained relatively untouched since then. The mental hospital in question was “built” in 1922 — though it was essentially just a repurposing of older structures already present on the island, some of which had been there for quite some time. (Something to note, Poveglia Island is distinct from Ex Poveglia — another island located about three kilometers west.)

World's most haunted island' up for auctionDubbed one of the most haunted places in the world, Poveglia, which was sealed off after it was hit by the plague, is to be sold off to raise money for Italy

A lease of a Venetian island described as one of the most haunted places in Italy is due to be auctioned off next month as the Italian state desperately seeks to raise revenue.

Poveglia, a small, uninhabited island in the Venice lagoon, minutes from St Mark’s Square, is among five prime properties, including a castle and a monastery, that will go under the hammer in an online auction to help cut Italy’s massive debt pile.

The 17-acre island was fought over by the Venetians and the Genoese in the 14th century - and still shows traces of being fortified - before it became a quarantine station for ships arriving at Venice in the 18th century.

After a plague was discovered on two ships, the island was sealed off and used to host people with infectious diseases, leading to legends of terminally ill Venetians waiting to die before their ghosts returned to haunt the island.

A hospital for the elderly which opened in 1922 and operated until 1968 is rumoured to have hosted experiments on the mentally ill, including crude lobotomies, carried out by a director who was driven mad by ghosts before throwing himself from the hospital’s tower.

The island is currently closed to visitors, but an American TV presenter who visited the island and entered the abandoned hospital for the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures claimed to have been briefly possessed by a ghost there.

The Italian state is now hoping that offers will arrive to transform the hospital into a luxury hotel under a deal giving the buyer a 99-year lease to redevelop the property, while the island remains the property of the state.

A further four properties listed for auction will be sold off rather than leased, including a monumental monastery in the crumbling old town of Taranto in Puglia, in the heel of Italy, and a 15th century castle in Gradisca d’Isonzo, near the border with Slovenia, that was built to defend against the Turks.

The state sales agency is selling off the properties after first ensuring buyers have the permits to redevelop - an essential prerequisite in Italy, where red tape can deter investors.

A former barracks in Trieste is also going under the hammer, one of dozens of disused barracks buildings built in the centre of Italian towns and dating back to the unification of Italy, which the state is trying to sell.

A spokeswoman for Italy’s state sales agency declined to put a possible price on Poveglia but noted that barracks buildings had previously been sold for up to €3.8 million. Another 148 properties are due to be auctioned off this year, with the state hoping to raise €500 million.